He was an award-winning Broadway producer, she was a dancer and choreographer.
Together they bestrode the world of musical theatre, where beauties remain
faithful to beasts, deformed opera composers pledge themselves to young
sopranos and love overcomes all things.

And so it was, until Tony Ponturo met a younger woman. In response, Ruthe, the
woman scorned, has created a show called Divorce: The Musical — Better
Mad than Sad. It opens off-Broadway next month.

“I like to think of this show as group therapy,” says Ms Ponturo, 63, on the
musical’s website. After learning in March last year that her
husband